Patrice Lumumba Ford

Patrice Lumumba Ford (1971-) was a member of the "Portland Seven" cell of al-Qaeda.

Biography
Patrice Lumumba Ford was born in 1971 in Portland, Oregon, the son of local Black Panthers leader Kent Ford. He was named for Patrice Lumumba, the Congolese nationalist leader, and he majored in Chinese and International Studies at Portland State University after flunking out of Morehouse College in the state of Georgia. In 1998-1999, he worked as an intern at the mayor's office, but he acted suspiciously; he said that he wanted a to marry a "real Muslim" who carried an AK-47 and was ready to run and blow something up, and he sent an anti-Semitic letter to Jewish mayor Vera Katz in 2001. On 29 September 2001, he was arrested while shooting guns at a rock quarry with other members of the "Portland Seven" American cell of al-Qaeda, and he was arrested again after two failed attempts to enter Afghanistan and join the Taliban.